Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MIcHAEI. RoARK, the express robber in
custody at Utica, N. Y, is said to answer
the printed description of Michael Rourxe.
who escaped from the Jefferson City (Mo. J
pen!tentiary in 1881. while serving a ten
years. sentence for train robbery.
JOIN I. RAYMOND, the celebrated
comedian, died at Evansville, Ind, ON the
morning OF the 10Th, from complication
OF bowel and heart troubles. Mr.. Ray
mond was fifty years old on the 4;h inst.
The Princess of Wales is reported to
be IN precarious condition of health,
through anxiety over the me ltal and other
troubles of her three sisters.
"A PRAIRIE fire swept over the greater
portion of Grant County, Oak, oa the
night Of the Ssh, doing q vast amount of
damage to farm buildings and destroying
many head of live stock
The worlds champion base ball club
the st. Louis Browns administered a sec.
ond defeat to the Chicagos at ST. Louis on
the 9th, thus getting two ou. of three of
the st. Louis end of the series.
THE President has appointed as )mm Is-
sioners to investigate the affairs of tle
Pacific railroads, under the act pas ,ed by
the last Congress: ex-G overnor R 1bert E.
Pattison, of Pensylv mia; E. Ellery Ander-
son, of New York, and David Littler, Of
Illinois .r-
TIE President is In dilemma. St
Louis wants him in September, and Chi
cago wants him in November He can
not make two trips West, and can not fa-
vor one city without offending tho other;
ergo, he may not visit either.
THE fisheries question is thought at
Washington to be rapidly approaching q
elimination, owing to the menacing atti-
tude assumed by the Canadian authori-
ties, encouraged by the British Govern
ment.
THE leading English Ma sonic lodges are
preparing elaborate fetes for the Ameri-
can Knights Templar who go to the grand
Templars' union to be held in York in
July. EfEt
Mrs. JAMES BRowN POTTER Is reported
to be playing to rather light business in
London, but is drawing 500 week never
theless; and the critics agree that she IS
showing marked improvement in her act
ing.
BENJAMIN MARsroN, miner working in
the Lake Angeline mine near Negaunee,
Mich, had his head cut off while ascend
leg the shaft on an ore ship, on the 9th.
His fellow miners were SO shocked by
seeing his head fall to the bottom of the
shaft that they all left the mine
DR.. MUDD. of st. Louis, who went to
Fort Gibson, l. T., to attend Mr.. Blaine,
reports that the patient Is suffering from
broncho- pneumonia, and fears are ex-
pressed that his condition is worse than
has been given out.
IT is reported from st. Petersburg that
a quantity of dynamite has been abb
stracted from the artillery depot at Liban,
and many persons have been arrested on
suspicion of being implicated in the affair.
TIE German Supreme Court of Justice
has decided that the acquisition OF citizen
ship in the United States with an un-
broken residence there of five years
causes loss of citizenship in Germany, and
such persons returning to Germany will
be liable to expu sion from the country.
"A HORSESHOE turning contest took place
at Battery I'D" hall, Chicago, on the night
OF the OH, between William Armitage
and Joseph Lawler, both OF Chicago, for
$50 side. Lawler was the winner, COM
pleting one hundred shoes in one hour and
six minutes, to eighty-nine for Armitage
in the same tine
THE Cherokee Female Seminary at
Tahlequah, l. T., was destroyed by fire on
the 10th.
CAPTAIN BILLY FIELD, of the United
States Indian police, was shot and killed
at Eufaula, l. T., on the 10th.
POPULAR agitation against coercion IS
systematically organized throughout
Great Britain and Ireland English speak
ers are to visit Ireland and Irish speakers
will stump England.
A TELEGRAM from st. JOINS, n. F., on
the 10th, announced that the missing
steamer Eagle arrived there at noon on
that day. All we'll She has 1000 seals.
JUDGE WILLIAM STRONG died at Port
land, Ore, on the 10th, OF inflammation OF
the liver, aged seventy. He went to
Oregon, then u Territory, in 1850, with the
appointment as Federal judge from Presi-
dent Fillmore. He was a cousin of Judge
Strong of the United States supreme
bench and descendent of the noted
Strong family.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail
road Company is talking Of building an
industrial city near Kansas City
A SECTION of the Salvation Army was
attacked by Quebec mob on the 10Th, and
one of the women was badly injured.
The Government has no tents which are
available to lend to the Grand Army
National encampment at st. Louis.
y MONSTER duul-COCICiOn iudoS-u uiCCeAhS
was held in Hyde Park, London, on the
11th The proceedings were orderly.
GENERAL Villas and Superintendent
Nash, of the Railway Mail Service, start
ed West on the 18th to inspect the fast
mails.
DAVID HUFFMAN, convicted of train
wrecking at Dun bar, Neh., has been sem
fenced to be hanged July g.
STANLEY has arranged for salary OF
8, ,S0J a year for Tippoo Tib, the African
chief, as Governor of the Congo State
The Young Republican Club of Phila-
delphia held its annual banquet on the
night OF the 1lth. John Sherman wrote
letter and Jchn Wise made q speech.
The advent of popular young woman
in the neighborhood where christening
was being celebrated in Denver, Col, on
the 1lth, brought on riot among Poles,
Swedes and Hungarians, in which one
man was killed and q number wounded.
1t took the entire city police force, armed
with Winchester rifles, to restore order.
Mr.. BLAINE's physicians reported him
on the 18th as getting along finely, but
said that lie mus have few days more
of rest before leaving Fort Gibson.
NEAR Doy lestown, O., on the 18th, while